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Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by CopperI-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
Published on: September 18, 2016
Synthesis and Full Characterization of One Organometallic Polyoxometalate-Based Copper(I)-Alkene Complex
Lili Lan1, Tao Zhang1, Huanjiang Wang1
1Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Big Data, School of Chemical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China.
Abstract:
An alkene-bridged thioether ligand (L) was designed and used for its first study within a polyoxometalate (POM) hybrid system, and a POM-based copper(I)-alkene compound [(CuIL)2(PVMoVI12O40)]·(CuIL) (1) was isolated and characterized by X-ray crystallography. A unique alkene-coordinating N(η2-C═C)N mode of L is observed, and the Cu centers are captured by σ2,π-L in a pocket fashion, giving birth to discrete [CuIL]+ cations and [(CuIL)2(PVMoVI12)]- anions. The ionic crystal exhibits solubility in aprotic polar solvents, and the electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is used to explore the nature of species present in the solution. It is found that the whole cluster [PVMoVI12]3- is completely present, and all the main peaks can be assigned to different charged fragments of the same parent cluster.
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